All Them Witches - Nothing As The Ideal

Monday, time for "Record Of The Week".

"Nothing As The Ideal" is the sixth full-length studio release for the Nashville psychedelic-rock band ALL THEM WITCHES, the album was recorded at Abbey Road with producer Mikey Allred.

"Nothing As The Ideal" is only forty-three minutes long, divided over eight track and is the band’s shortest album to date. As the band recently becoming a power trio after five albums as a quartet one could imagine that this album would sound diffrent, specially on the dynamic level, but for the most part the overall sound is pretty similar as the previous releases. It's full of blues-inflected heavy psych rock and americana that have gotten to be thier signature mix. The album has a very aggressive approch, if you compre to the precursor release, this is apparently noticeable in the gtoovy and more aggressive heavy rock tunes "Enemy Of My Enemy" and "Lights Out", with this they still prooves that can offers some new creative things and gives us as a listner a great variety of the bands composing, take the more moodier and psycadelic offer "See You Next Fall", near to ten-minutes of deep mysterious vibes, to the meandering jams like "Saturnine & Iron Jaw" to cool down with the ballad "Everest" or the marvelous americana piece "The Children Of Coyote Woman", the bass heavy "41" that have a post-metal feeling and some heavy riffing, shows another side of the band. The powerful stripped-down "Rats In Ruin" closes the album, slow and dark begining until the very end when it changes direction to a wonderful jam. "Nothing As The Ideal" is an excellent release from these guys and still after a handful of turns, I rejoice in their work.

Sum: "Nothing As The Ideal" is a surprising and delightful release.

The band consists of:
Drummer Robby Staebler,
Vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Charles Michael Parks Jr.,
Guitarist Ben McLeod.

Today's tune "The Children Of Coyote Woman", taken from "Nothing As The Ideal", released September 4th. "'The Children of Coyote Woman' is a retelling of the founding of Rome through a southern perspective," ATW frontman Charles Michael Parks Jr. tells us. "Two brothers fight to see who will control the region after the passing of their mother, a woman so fierce and legendary that people would rather leave their homes than get in her way. Though powerful, though fierce, their lives exist in a minuscule blip in the universe and are still tied to the struggles and hardships of trying to survive in the poor rural south.

"In my mind, there are a lot of similarities between the Roman empire and the USA. The same essence of power and ingenuity, as well as it's brutal conquests for resources. The founding fathers undoubtedly studied the reign of the Caesars and chose it as a model for their new republic."



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